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A Shipibo Tradition

We offer healing ayahuasca retreats with master plants, traditional Shipibo diets, and ayahuasca ceremonies. We are specialists in shamanic treatment under the guidance of master healer and ayahuasquero Ricardo Amaringo. We are an integrative healing center also providing training in Amazonian shamanism and opportunities for visionary art.

The center is named after a Shipibo master plant called Nihue Rao, because it is located near a large grove of these medicinal trees. “Nihue Rao“ can be literally translated as the medicinal plant of the air.

3 months plant diet, secont time at the centre. For me it was a life changing experience. Here is where mirracles still happen and when you stay here for a long time you witness many of them. Read More

Vesna Toronto

To Nihue Rao... This is how I love you... From the pits of my toes, to the tickling sensation in the back of my knees, to the butterflies mating in the belly, to my heart unfolding like a lotus to the sun. Read More

Ariel Shamanic apprentice.

Nihue Rao is one of a kind. In a world where almost everything is upside down, things are very much the right way up up here. Following the plant dietas and incorporating Ayahuasca under... Read More

Richard Vermeulen Shamanic apprentice

I began my journey with the medicine in 2014 here in Nihue Rao. My first few weeks of ceremonies were the hardest but most rewarding work of my life. I dived deep into healing the wounds and traumas of my past. Read More